Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration

Academic Leadership Journal 9, 4 (2011) 1-5

Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration

Nader Ale Ebrahim 1, Shamsuddin Ahmed 1, Zahari Taha 2

(2011)

Introduction: With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to achieve the competitive advantage. Information systems and technology allow companies to coordinate their activities in distant geographic locations [2]. IT is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams represent one such relational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness [3-4].

1 :	University of Malaya (UM)
	Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya
2 :	Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering and Management Technology, University Malaysia Pahang (UMP)
	Education

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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Gestion et management Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Education

Mots Clés : Virtual R&D teams – Collaboration – virtual teams – SMEs – Education

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